Epic's Mark Rein seemingly laughed at the question when asked if Unreal Engine 4 would be available for Wii U. Rein has since clarified that this is not the case, and has also pointed out Unreal Engine 3's success on the Wii U/PS3/360.

I really respect Nintendo for their contribution to the gaming world although I' am not a big fan. In 90s Nintendo and Sony really paved the way for the home consoles, if it wasn't for them, we wouldn't be here in the gaming.

It's low mid tier gaming pc? And ps4 is mid tier. So there's not much difference in your eyes? Tell me some wii u games that look half as good as killzone or uncharted. According to your those aren't even the lowest ranking gaming pcs but they are currently still ahead of ninty's next gen efforts. It's really this simple: in terms of power of the console, Nintendo fell behind in a big way

Did you even read the article, no probably just read the title I am assuming. This is about him completely changing his story now.

"Rein spoke with Engadget and clarified his comment from the presentation, noting that it's totally possible to run Unreal Engine 4 games on Wii U. "You heard the stupid gaffe yesterday about the Wii U," he said. "If someone wants to take Unreal Engine 4 and ship a game on Wii U, they can! If they wanna ship an Unreal Engine 4 game on Xbox 360, they could make it happen."

So is his engine really not that impressive? Or he is just full of shit? In my eyes yes it isn't this impressive this time around especially if it will still run well on the PS3 and Xbox 360. I am not going to discredit what Unreal has done but this time around they are not the best in my eyes.

Agreed, this man is an idiot! That truly makes no sense at all and he knows that he was laughing at the WiiU, he just wasn't thinking about all the potential money he was screwing up with his mouth that's all... Everyone knows its the cool thing to do, by hating on Nintendo right now until its not when the sales from the WiiU turns around.

Like i've already said, if they wanted to they could enhance UE3 a lot.

Look at Soldier of Fortune 2 back in 2002, it was built on a highly enhanced Quake 3 engine and it looks a fair bit better than Quake 3 does. Goes to show you can do a lot with an engine if you work on it more.

Nintendo will probably suit up with it's next console. If they launch it within the next 3-4 years it'll put Microsoft and Sony in a weird position of either having to make due for another 2-3 years or releasing a new console. Nintendo's turned into something marketed for kids as of lately.

Don't really know why ppl seem surprised about this. Nintendo hasn't had stellar 3rd party support since the snes days. Although the GameCube did have decent 3rd party support during its life. I'm really hoping the wiiu can at least match the GameCube as it was on of my fav systems ever.

How many of those games came from last gen? I said already new AND old, however there is more new then old in that list. Surely if Nintendo have been round since the 80's they could of made more games no?

The thing is no one has seen retros engine. For everyone whoowns a Wii U heres all you need to feel better bout our gam system.

A connected source told us that Retro Studios has been charged with creating game engines for Wii U and helping other developers implement them. While we didn’t get any specifics on what exactly “other developers” means, our source commented that Retro’s work involves both internal and external projects. The icing on the cake? Apparently Retro showed off their Wii U magic to Epic Games and got them to reconsider bringing Unreal Engine 4 to the system.

But it's not sound until I read an official statement. (Because someone else said that earlier But named no source.)

Too close to April.

Personally, I think Nintendo would do better just sharing fully rendered 3-D models across projects.

Even if they used UR3 if they could cut and paste objects from game to game- like say a bottle, groceries, or a candles- (via some central Data base from Japan to Texas) that could cut down on a lot of designer time.

Soooooo... Epic itself is not gonna make UE4 run on the Wii U, but if another developer wants to take the engine and adapt it for the Wii U it can? That's kind of a really roundabout way of dealing business..........I think I know what these all these developers are doing, they want to just throw the Wii U under the rug, but they won't say it out right. This because pretty much every time they count out Nintendo, it still ends up being successful. They are just covering themselves so they can jump back on in case the Wii U becomes popular..........I'm not sure how I feel about that.

Who cares if he was, the Wii U is not about looking "next gen", it's about the way you play the games that make it "next gen"? I would say unique.

I recently made the jump from 360 to PC and at first the wow factor was there, games looked awesome. But at the end of the day I was still playing FC3, it looked a lot better but it didn't make me enjoy it anymore then I would of on ps3/360.

Playing ZombiU for the first time with the pad was awesome, it's just a shame I completed it.

Which is why most of the N4G pigeon trolls aren't really commenting on this post like they were on the original story. Now we have comments like "I don't even understand why people are upset that he laughed at the WiiU in the first place!" How dumb do people have to be to say something of the sort when what he was laughing at wasn't a true factual statement at all. If it was then that would be a different story then...

wii u has received nothing but negative feedback since launch (eve before it launched).. The name, its power, its features, its support, etc.. People didnt even know it was a new system.. & some still dont! Nintendo does have its fan base that will stick with em to the end so it will be ok but they made some very poor decisions with that thing.. i am a fan of their software because they have great developers but their hardware? ehhh not so much

Wii U is a blast, only downfall and it was expected is that of its cheaply implemented gpu. Why they did this again is baffling.

But that does not mean it is a bad chip, I believe it will keep up with nextgen for at least 3 years. The problem right now is that there are no good games on it, that really impress.

*What he probably meant to say is that Will the WiiU run the latest tech demos as shown, NO! Will the ps4? Sorta. AS you can see in the videos, even the PS4 has everything running at about a mid-high "Medium" settings.